When today’s South opened one heart, West committed (my word) an “Unusual” jump to 2NT, showing length in both minors and usually a hand suitable for a sacrifice. As it happened, North had a huge hand and drove to six hearts.

West led the queen of clubs, and declarer took dummy’s king and drew trumps. Then, with a blueprint of the distribution, he cashed the ace of clubs and the K-A of diamonds and led a spade to dummy’s queen. If East took the king, he would be fatally end-played, forced to concede a ruff-sluff or return a spade to dummy. So East played low.

South then took the ace of spades and exited with dummy’s last club, and when West won, he was end-played. He had to lead a minor suit, and South ruffed in dummy and threw his last spade.

My dinosaur opinion: If you don’t have anything, don’t bid. If West passes quietly, North-South will reach slam, but I suspect South will fail by finessing in spades, then hoping the ten will fall. The double end play will never occur to him.

Players who indulge in hyperactive preempts recall the deals in which they successfully disrupted the opponents’ auction. They tend to forget the times when the intervention impelled their opponents to bid to an unlikely contract, then helped them make it.